Cash transfers (CTs) are increasingly recognized as a scalable intervention to alleviate
financial hardship. A large body of evidence evaluates the impact of CTs on subjective well …

Bilingual people are often claimed to have an advantage over monolingual people in
cognitive processing owing to their ability to learn and use two languages. This advantage is …

Mind-sets (aka implicit theories) are beliefs about the nature of human attributes (eg,
intelligence). The theory holds that individuals with growth mind-sets (beliefs that attributes …

The movement towards open science is a consequence of seemingly pervasive failures to
replicate previous research. This transition comes with great benefits but also significant …

Because of enduring experience of managing two languages, bilinguals have been argued
to develop superior executive functioning compared with monolinguals. Despite extensive …

Efforts to improve the reproducibility and integrity of science are typically justified by a
narrative of crisis, according to which most published results are unreliable due to growing …

Publication bias and questionable research practices in primary research can lead to badly
overestimated effects in meta-analysis. Methodologists have proposed a variety of statistical …

Recently there has been a growing concern that many published research findings do not
hold up in attempts to replicate them. We argue that this problem may originate from a …

Ten years ago, Pellicano and Burr published one of the most influential articles in the study
of autism spectrum disorders, linking them to aberrant Bayesian inference processes in the …

The efficacy of working memory (WM) training has been a controversial and hotly debated
issue during the past years. Despite a large number of training studies and several meta …